Loaded 27 onto my laptop. It was so fast, the computer launched itself out of the house at FTL speed and is now tweeting from somewhere around Alpha Centauri.
Guess I'll replace it with a Chromebook.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Many people have been ridiculed by the "established" scientific community and have been found to be right later on (Einstein, Galileo, etc.)
By the time Einstein came around, it was obvious that Newtonian and Maxwellian physics were incompatible. Look up the Lortentz-Fitzgerald Contraction. The concept of the "Ether." Michelson-Morley. Etc. For Pete's sake, man, read up on the subject before you post.
What wasn't clear was whether or not Einstein was right. Subsequent experiments have shown that he was.
Actually, "Computers Don't Argue" is available in many places online, but I wouldn't want to link to one of them and have Slashdot vaporized by a Dalek.
Everything's either a rehash, a 'reimagined' approach to an old series, or a knockoff on someone else's successful idea.
I, OTOH, have this great idea for a series: see, there's these two families that hate each other, and a boy from one family meets a girl from the other family, and they fall in love, and everybody gets really upset and there's lots of death and destruction . . .
What's that?
Oh, OK, Nevermind.
If we required every TV show to be absolutely original, we wouldn't need even one channel, much less 500.
that a calendar program be able to figure out when Easter is? There are civil as well as religious uses for this -- e.g. in Maryland, Good Friday and the Monday after Easter are school holidays.
Once upon a time I had a program which knew Easter, Yom Kippur, Ramadan, the start and end of Daylight Savings Time, the phases of the Moon, and could convert all it to the Mayan calendar. One could Easily Manipulate and Add CalendarS. Can't think of the name, though. It will come to me presently.
I believe there were at least three gates on Earth:
* The original gate, discovered in Egypt, blown up as mentioned
* The gate found in Antarctica, briefly used by the NID, now covered with a shield and stored somewhere in Area 51
* The gate discovered by the Russians, now in place at SG-1.
> Yes, I'm a geek.
Geekier than thou.
Clarke's First Law
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Clarke's Second Law:
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is by venturing a little way past them into the impossible.
Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And yes, Clarke came up with number 3. In the 1950's or 1960's, I believe. http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Laws.ht ml
says they're listed in his Profiles of the Future, which I read in High School, a long, long time ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Formulas? You want Formulas?
http://people.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/toc.htm
This version has the naughty bits:
http://apps.nrbook.com/abramowitz_and_stegun/index.html
And here's the Revised Standard Version:
http://dlmf.nist.gov/
Loaded 27 onto my laptop. It was so fast, the computer launched itself out of the house at FTL speed and is now tweeting from somewhere around Alpha Centauri.
Guess I'll replace it with a Chromebook.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Many people have been ridiculed by the "established" scientific community and have been found to be right later on (Einstein, Galileo, etc.)
By the time Einstein came around, it was obvious that Newtonian and Maxwellian physics were incompatible. Look up the Lortentz-Fitzgerald Contraction. The concept of the "Ether." Michelson-Morley. Etc. For Pete's sake, man, read up on the subject before you post. What wasn't clear was whether or not Einstein was right. Subsequent experiments have shown that he was.
Poster is too logical. Have IRS perform audit. And make all his private tweets public.
Actually, "Computers Don't Argue" is available in many places online, but I wouldn't want to link to one of them and have Slashdot vaporized by a Dalek.
Is a big button on the panel that says "Make it Work Like Gnome 2" Or FVWM, I'm not picky.
If we're going for disturbing transformations, the The Triumph of Time in Blish's Cities in Flight is right up there.
Actually, it's 19109
Rule of thumb... Isn't that the rule that says a man can beat his wife with a stick as long as it's no thicker than his thumb?
No
If snorting beer through your nose after reading counts, mod parent up (funny).
> Do you have that cartoon?
Well, not personally, until now, but a quick search finds:
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/images/miracle3 .gif
Chuck Norris has achieved some kind of cult status. I know, because the Washington Post told me so (after I registered).
Everything's either a rehash, a 'reimagined' approach to an old series, or a knockoff on someone else's successful idea.
I, OTOH, have this great idea for a series: see, there's these two families that hate each other, and a boy from one family meets a girl from the other family, and they fall in love, and everybody gets really upset and there's lots of death and destruction . . .
What's that?
Oh, OK, Nevermind.
If we required every TV show to be absolutely original, we wouldn't need even one channel, much less 500.
> Heres the penthouse pic for those with a pulse.
Uh, dude, in Penthouse she'd be totally naked, probably with a guy and a couple of other women.
And a donkey.
that a calendar program be able to figure out when Easter is? There are civil as well as religious uses for this -- e.g. in Maryland, Good Friday and the Monday after Easter are school holidays.
Once upon a time I had a program which knew Easter, Yom Kippur, Ramadan, the start and end of Daylight Savings Time, the phases of the Moon, and could convert all it to the Mayan calendar. One could Easily Manipulate and Add CalendarS. Can't think of the name, though. It will come to me presently.
In the meantime, I'm using Sanjay Ghemawat's old ical program.
So what did Calvin say to that?
He said that anyone who accepts a convenant (e.g., an EULA) without reading the fine print is predestined to get hit with spyware.
was Michael Shanks post-Stargate SG-1 acting career.
I believe there were at least three gates on Earth: * The original gate, discovered in Egypt, blown up as mentioned * The gate found in Antarctica, briefly used by the NID, now covered with a shield and stored somewhere in Area 51 * The gate discovered by the Russians, now in place at SG-1. > Yes, I'm a geek. Geekier than thou.
Clarke's three laws, curtesy of Wikipedia ( http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_Three_Laws)
- Clarke's First Law
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Clarke's Second Law:
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is by venturing a little way past them into the impossible.
- Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And yes, Clarke came up with number 3. In the 1950's or 1960's, I believe. http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Laws.hmjm